Les photographes invités / Master featured photographers

1. GEORGE GEORGIOU > 9 au 17 avril 2011 / ITALY

>Biographie / Biography

George Georgiou was born in 1961, photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the last decade, living and working in Serbia, Greece and for nearly five years in Istanbul. His work has focused on transition and identity and how people negotiate the space they find themselves in.

>Prix / Awards

Two World Press Photo prizes in 2003 and 2005. The British Journal of Photography project prize 2010. Pictures of the Year International first prize for Istanbul Bombs in 2004. Nikon Press Award UK for photo essay 2000.

>Bibliographie / Bibliography

The Book "Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West" has been published by
Filigranes editions, French . Postcart edizioni, Italian . Schilt publishing, English . Apeiron, Greek

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2. NAN GOLDIN / The ballad of my life > 17 au 25 avril 2010 / Italy

Photographe de la Galerie Yvon Lambert. Paris, France

>Biographie / Biography

Goldin was born in 1953 Washington, D.C., and grew up in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in the Boston,
Massachusetts suburb of Lexington. She enrolled at the Satya Community School in Lincoln and start photography in 1968 at fifteen years old.
Her first solo show, held in Boston in 1973, was based on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transsexual communities,
to which she had been introduced by her friend David Armstrong. Goldin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston/Tufts University in 1977/1978, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints.

Following graduation, Goldin moved to New York City. She began documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene,
along with the city's vibrant, post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s until 1986s. She was drawn especially to the Bowery's
hard-drug subculture; these photographs form her famous work (The Ballad of Sexual Dependency). These snapshot aesthetic images
depict drug use, violent, aggressive couples and autobiographical moments. Most of her Ballad subjects were dead by the 1990s,
lost either to drug overdose or AIDS; this tally included close friends and often-photographed subjects Greer Lankton
and Cookie Mueller. The main themes of these early pictures are love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality; these frames are usually shot
with available light. She has affectionately documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag queens,
sexual acts, and the culture of obsession and dependency. The images are viewed like a private journal made public

Since 1995 she has included a wide array of subject matter: collaborative book projects with famed Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki;
New York City skylines; uncanny landscapes her lover, Siobhan; and babies, parenthood and family life.
Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a slideshow; her most famous being a 45 minutes show in which 800 pictures are displayed.

In 2003, The New York Times nodded to the work's impact, explaining Goldin had "forged a genre, with photography as influential
as any in the last twenty years." In addition to Ballad, she combined her Bowery pictures in two other series: "I'll Be Your Mirror"
(from a song on The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico album) and "All By Myself."

Goldin lives in New York and Paris (one reason the French Pompidou Centre mounted a major retrospective of her work in 2002).
Her hand was injured in a fall in 2002, and she currently retains less ability to turn it than in the past.
In 2006, her exhibition, Chasing a Ghost, opened in New York. It was the first installation by her to include moving pictures,
a fully narrative score, and voiceover, and included the disturbing three-screen slide and video presentation Sisters, Saints, & Sybils.
The work involved her sister Barbara's suicide and how she coped through a numerous amount of images and narratives.
Her works are developing more and more into cinemaesque features, exemplifying her graviation towards working with films.

Born in 1944 at Stockholm, Anders Petersen has been involved in Swedish photography since the late 60's. He is one of its central figures, and no one else has made a stronger impact on a younger generation. Yet, he hardly gives the impression of being a father figure. If anything, he is the eternal boy, travelling through an alien wonderland with its secret love encounters and bewildering adult conflicts. His pictures of the world out there somehow seem to be taken in a state of permanent amazement. His pictures are intimate, and yet they disclose no all too unpleasant details concerning the people involved. One of the secrets in Anders Petersen's photography is his indication of a possible route of escape, a kind of alternative movement through the city, which could lead to a different story.

Born in 1961 in Marseille, Antoine D'Agata leaves France in 1983 and remains
overseas for the following ten years. In 1990 an interest in photography leads
him to follow courses at the ICP in New York, the same year as Larry Clark and
Nan Goldin. An intern within the Editorial Department at the New York Magnum
office from 1991 to 1992, he returns to France in 1993. Until 1996 he leaves
photography aside. In 1998 his first book is published " De mala muerte ".
Distributed by the Galerie VU from 1999 onwards, he goes on to publish his
second book " Hometown " in 2001. That same year he is the recipient of the
Niépce prize. In September 2003, his exhibition " 1001 Nuits " opens in Paris,
accompanied by the publication of " Vortex " and " Insomnia ". In 2004 he joins
Magnum Photos and the book " Stigma " comes out. Shooting of his first short
feature film in video, " Ventre du Monde " in October 2004.

Antoine D'Agata is based in Paris.

The night, the sex, the wandering... and the need to photograph it all, not so much the
perceived act but more like a simple exposure to common and even extreme experiences...
It is an inseparable part of photographic practice, in a certain sense, to grasp at
existence or risk, desire, the unconsciousness and chance, all of which continue to be
essential elements. No moral posturing, no judgement, simply the principle of affirmation,
necessary to explore certain universes, to go deep inside, without any care.
A ride into photography to the vanishing point of orgasm and death. "
Antoine d'Agata, 2004

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>Biographie / Biography

Bruce Gilden was born in in 1946 Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended Penn State University where he became bored studying sociology.
In 1968, after seeing the Antonioni film Blow Up, he bought his first camera.
Though he took some night classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York he is basically self-taught in photography.
When he was a child Gilden spent hours gazing through his bedroom window studying the activity on the street below.
His fascination for street life continued and led him to his first long-term personal projects photographing in Coney Island
and then to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Gilden, who has done extended projects on New York, Haiti, France, Ireland, India and Japan, started exhibiting
as early as 1971 and has since shown his work widely in museums and galleries all over the world.
The strong dynamic forms and graphic quality of his images and his in-the-face theatrical style distinguish Gilden's original vision.

>Prix et bourses

Gilden has received numerous grants and awards for his work including three National Endowments
for the Arts fellowships (1980, 1984 and 1992), a Villa Medicis Hors les Murs (1995),
New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant (1979, 1992 and 2000), the European Award for Photography (1996)
and a Japan Foundation Fellowship (1999).

1978 > "Frostbite", first monograph is published by Morgan & Morgan.
First American publication in Popular Photography Annual and Camera 35.

1979 > Daniel Hughes Minkkinen is born February 15. Begins series of self-portraits with son.
Meets Duane Michals, Arthur Tress, and Peter Hujar.

1983 > Invited by Lucien Clergue to present work in "Fantastic Photography in Europe" at the Rencontres d'Arles.
Conducts first workshop in Arles. Meets Nathalie Emprin, translator and assistant and future owner of a Gallery.
Also philosophy professor Robert Pujade. Begins work with Polaroid 20 x 24 camera at Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
"Father & Son", first showing of self-portraits with Daniel at the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston.

1984 > Invited back to teach in Finland at the Lahti Institute of Design and University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Meets Viviane Esders who presents exhibitions in Paris and other French venues.
Stays two years in Finland with Sandra and Daniel in Lahti, Finland.

1986 > Gives up bid to become Professor of Photography in Finland.
Returns to America and resumes advertising career as Creative Director at Crosson, Wolf & Partners in Boston.
Kimmo Koskela, a former Finnish student, begins filming biographical material on life and work.

1992 > Joins the University of Art and Design Helsinki as Docent in the Photography Department.
Finnish government confers knighthood with the First Class Order of the Lion Medal.
Begins self-portraits with women in Asikkala, Finland.

1994 > "Waterline", published in France (Marval), America (Aperture) and Finland (Otava)
with an essay by Michel Tournier, is voted Book of the Year at the 25th Rencontres d'Arles.
"Waterline" retrospective begins museum tour in Europe. Celebrates 25th wedding anniversary with Sandra on Nantucket Island.

1995 > First solo exhibition in New York (since 1972) at Houk Friedman Gallery.
Begins working in the American southwest. Meets Radu Stern, director adjoint, École d'arts appliqués, Vevey, Switzerland.
Begins teaching first year students in the photography program there.

1996 > "Still Not There" is screened at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
Begins summer teaching at the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Toscana Photographic Workshops.
Conducts "Spirit Level", a three week workshop with Timo Laaksonen for ten American, ten Finnish,
and ten Swiss students through Finland, Eastern Europe and Switzerland.

1997 > "Body Land" is published by Federico Motta Editore in Milan.
"Still Not There" is screened at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Drives cross country to continue work in the American southwest.

1998 > Musta Taide in Helsinki publishes "ten minutes past midnight", a major exhibition
at Gallen Kallela Museum, studio home of the Finnish painter. Show travels to the Mois de la Photo in Paris.
"Body Land" is published by Editions Nathan in Paris. "Still Not There" receives silver key at Trebianka Solvice Film Festival;
Geraldine Chaplin is the juror. Meets Valerio Tazzetti at Photo & Co. in Torino.

2000 to 2006 > Attends opening in Japan of "The Body as an Expression of the Subconscious"
at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Continues teaching in Maine and Tuscany. Begins working with pinhole cameras.